Susan Reynolds sells earrings and necklaces made from the wings of dead cicadas.Susan Reynolds

 

Cicadas as fashion:

Wing Art 

Susan Reynolds sells earrings and necklaces made from the wings of dead cicadas. 

Susan Reynolds picked it up a dead cicada, took it home, and became fascinated by the shape and intricate veining of its wings.

Almost two decades later, she’s still making cicada-wing earrings.

This year, as her customers celebrate Brood X — the cicada cohort that emerges every 17 years — she incorporated flowers, leaves and birds cut from vintage postcards. The results look like tiny panels of stained glass.

“I want to make jewelry that looks like a fairy flew into an elderly woman’s room and started snatching things off her dressing table,” Reynolds said.



 

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Let it go

 

"Amazing Grace"

  

https://youtu.be/y9OGNMJ0-Kw

The cicadas are here.

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The cicadas are here to party.




And like any good party, especially one that only happens every 17 years, the emergence will be loud and crowded. Billions of cicadas, part of a cohort called Brood X, are emerging from underground tunnels to sing, mate and die across the U.S. Here’s everything you need to know.




One person who is especially excited for them is Bun Lai, a Connecticut-based chef who grew up in Japan. For Lai, cicadas are mesmerizing to eat, their sweet, bitter flavor reminiscent of walnuts, chestnuts and adzuki beans, and their gently crunchy exterior giving way to creaminess. He plans to host cicada-centric dinners at his farm.

Delias eucharis, the common Jezebel

 

 

  

 

Delias eucharis, the common Jezebel, is a medium-sized pierid butterfly found in many areas of south and southeast Asia, especially in the non-arid regions of India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. The common Jezebel is one of the most common of the approximately 225 described species in the genus Delias. en.wikipedia.org

The cicadas are peeing

 

1. Do cicadas pee? - Cicada Mania

   www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/do-cicadas-pee

   Absolutely, cicadas do pee. There are a couple of reasons why: They pee to eliminate excess fluids taken in while drinking xylem (1). They pee to eliminate non-essential amino acids (2). Underground, they could use excess fluid to help moisten and remold their tunnels & cells (2). They might, in some cases, even use it to keep ants from attacking….

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   Yes, Brood X cicadas pee - The Washington Post

   www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/25/partly-cloudy...

   Cicadas pee a lot, particularly during warm days. And when thousands of cicadas are perched overhead on tree branches, their pee falls to the ground like a gentle rain shower. Their pee is also ...